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"Sometime in the eternities to come, we will see that our trials were calculated to cause us to turn to our Heavenly Father for strength and support. Any affliction or suffering we are called upon to bear may be directed to give us experience, refinement, and perfection."
--Delbert L. Stapley


  Becoming a Butterfly

Once there were students in a science class. They had a caterpillar and watched it make a cocoon. They knew it would enter the cocoon, stay inside for a while and when it came out it would be a beautiful butterfly. The caterpillar stayed inside the cocoon for months and finally, one day, it began to come out. The students watched the butterfly struggle. It was having a hard time getting out of its cocoon.

The science students felt bad and decided to help the poor little butterfly. Very carefully they took small scissors and cut the opening in the cocoon wider so it would be easy for the new butterfly to get out. They watched and waited. When the butterfly came out it tried to open its wings...it couldn't. When it tried to fly away it wasn't strong enough.

The science teacher explained to the students that butterflies struggling to get out of the cocoon helps build it's wings and make them strong. it needs to fight and work and struggle in order to be strong enough to one day fly.

Heavenly Father sent us to earth to learn and to grow.  One of the ways that we grow and learn to depend on Heavenly Father is through trials and difficulties.   

In our lives sometimes bad things happen to good people.